“…Five studies describe palliative care volunteer services in dedicated palliative care wards or beds within hospitals, 30,32,37,38,43 and nine report volunteer roles/services provided across multiple wards of hospitals. 29,31,[33][34][35][36]39,41,42 Eight studies report data collected from palliative care volunteers, [29][30][31]33,35,37,38,42 one reports data collected from health professionals, 43 two studies report service-level data from the one study 39,41 and three report data from multiple sources, including volunteers, health professionals, patients, family and service-level data. 32,34,36 When combined, these studies provide data from 422 volunteers, 468 health professionals, 220 patients and 4 family members.…”